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Description: The role of D. Altino as bishop in Portuguese Africa is yet to be studied. Following the long anti-colonial stance adopted by the Portuguese bishops Rezende and Vieira Pinto in Beira and Nampula, w...

The role of D. Altino as bishop in Portuguese Africa is yet to be studied. Following the long anti-colonial stance adopted by the Portuguese bishops Rezende and Vieira Pinto in Beira and Nampula, why was D. Altino afraid to take a position and denounce the evil of the Portuguese colonial rule, limiting himself to giving refuge to two priests who denounced the massacres?
Was he scared by the ultra-conservative whites? That is what I was given to understand by his brother priest Orlando, whom I met in Lisbon during months following the untimely death of Bishop Altino. A recent study of the Church in Mozambique under the Estado Novo by Pedro Ramos Brandão (Lisboa: Editorial Notícias, 2004) has not a word about bishop Altino Ribeiro de Santana. We know nothing either about the positions adopted by the bishop in the ongoing anti-colonial war in Angola.